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Ubuntu team is already planning for 10.04 LTS, which will see the light of day in April 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 (codename Lucid Lynx) LTS will be released Next year on April 29th.
Ubuntu 10.04 Release schedule
December 10th, 2009 – Alpha 1 release
January 14th, 2010 – Alpha 2 release
February 25th, 2010 – Alpha 3 release
March 18th, 2010 – Beta1 release
April 8th, 2010 – Beta2 release
April 22nd, 2010 - Release Candidate
April 29th, 2010 – Final release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
If you want detailed release schedule from here
Wow, do people know the major improvements? Gnome Shell?
I’ve been a computer user for over 20 years. It was 7 years of age when i first sit infront of “MS Dos” and then win 3.1, win 95, win 98, etc.. Until now, i have given some chance to Linux and tried to use it (it was many years ago) but i couldnt get familiar to use it. Then I have given a chance to use Ubuntu 9.0.4 and it has been 15 days.. Now i am in love with the OS. Everything is perfect, i can customize most of the things visually or technically.. Ubuntu can never be compared in visuality with Compiz (in comparison with windows). This OS is really quick and provides you everything free.. You can watch your favorite movies and series (any codecs), internet surfing is very fast, this OS detected all of my hardware and i didnt have to install anything to get them worked, they are already installed. Installing software is very easy with Synaptic packet manager (or even so easy with “sudo apt-get install” commands).. To give a sum up, this release of Linux really rocks, and its so hard to leave it and turn back to MS.. I am having joy learning Linux commands and deeper details of the OS. Its so hard to believe everything comes free with this OS. You can download any software written by anybody to meet your requirements. For example, i didnt have to install any software to open my microsoft office files such as doc, xls..in linux. You have to pay quite good money to install MS Office.. Openoffice software came free with Linux. There are so much things to talk about the beauties of this operating system but its way too better to install and start using & learning it. The microsoft users should know that, it takes some time to customize the things on your desktop, icons colors fonts, sizes etc.. But make it sure that after customizing the things on your desktop, you will see how cool alternatives and themes you can get.. Anyway, Ubuntu.. Ubuntu.. Ubuntu..
Waiting for the new releases to explore the magnificient world of Linux.
@Simartem, glad to hear it!!
Simartem said it so well! I too have dabbled in linux for the past 7 or 8 years. It seems out of all of the flavors of Linux; Ubuntu has it right! Thank you for all your hard work it shines through!
Gnome 3.0 won’t be in Lucid but v10.10 will have it though. I think Lucid will be an evolutuion of Karmic and not some revolutionary new OS with the latest and greatest stuff. I think Lucid will have Kernel v2.6.31 and not v2.6.32.
OK, It’s official,
The future is open !
I will be really disappointed if Lucid does not come with 2.6.32, 2.6.31 in Karmic has some issues for me, and I want to look at BtrFS which will be much closer to a stable release in 2.6.32. Also, there’s more features for touch/multitouch in 2.6.32.
I think Canonical will bump to 2.6.32 if it releases soon, but possibly not 2.6.33.
I just can’t wait for 10.04 server ed so I can migrate thousands of old instances to another 5 year supported os w/ great features.
I have also used linux machines for the last 10 years. Have been using Ubuntu since the 6.06 LTS but prior to that I was a huge gentoo fan. Gentoo teaches you linux like no other distro will. Once I found apt-get system though w/ debian and ubuntu I couldn’t resist moving to a distro that took min to setup while gentoo took days to compile gnome and kde. The one issue I always disliked about debian is the releases are just so slow. Ubuntu is cutting Edge at all times w/ distro every 6 months and when you want 5 year support there are always a version you can use for large companies. Ubuntu will be my primary os for the rest of my IT career. Also the development of KVM/libvert on the ubuntu server ed has slingshot servers into the future providing unbelievable Virtualization.